After listening to Zong Zhangxiu's words, there were still many doubts in his heart. But Huai Dao didn't say anything, and after the discussion was over, Jia Xu was left alone.

Zhang Xiu saw it and knew that Jia Xu had something to say, so he asked Hu Che'er to stay outside the door and leave Jia Xu alone in the hall.

It turned out that although Jia Xu thought of the benefits of the imperial examination system, but at the same time thought of the shortcomings of this system, he only heard Jia Xu ask: "My lord, although there are many scholars from the poor family, my education may not be as good as that of the family." The lord's policy has offended the world's families, and those poor scholars can govern one side, but it is too difficult to help the lord fight for domination of the world. Moreover, after several wars, many books have been destroyed, and I am afraid that only the big families have the ability to keep the books, so the poor people will wither even more, and they think that the imperial examination system can only be used for a while, and cannot last long

Jia Xu's words are actually right, there were many talents in the early days, including Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai, Xu Shu and a large number of top ministers, and there were even more generals. This is the result of the political stability of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so that a large number of people can have time to be educated and study, and when the world is in chaos, this group of people will all pour out, making the talents of the late Han Dynasty brilliant. However, after decades of war, the political situation is unstable, and the poor scholars can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, let alone studying, resulting in most of the talents after the establishment of the Three Kingdoms are from the family. The biggest difference between the imperial examination system and the inspection system and the later Jiupin Zhongzheng system is that the emphasis is on digging talents from the poor family, but the war has led to the lack of books, and even if the scholars of the poor family have the heart, I am afraid that there will be no books to read, and the imperial examination system will be like a non-existent at that time.

However, Zhang Xiu had already planned this point, and only heard Zhang Xiu smile and said: "The matter of opening a branch and taking a scholar is handled by Xiu himself, didn't Wenhe say that when Xiu obtained the two counties, he would have a way to take over the monks?" ”

Jia Xu listened to Zhang Xiu's seemingly non-answering words, vaguely guessed something, and replied: "This matter is left to Xu."

Zhang Xiu nodded and said, "Xiu repaired another book, asked Wenhe to bring it to Chang'an, and found a way to ask Dong Zhuo for a few people, so that the problem of lack of officials can be solved." After that, Zhang Xiu took the pen, ink and silk cloth, wrote a letter freely, dried the ink, handed it to Jia Xu, and asked, "What do you think of these people, sir?" , Xiao Jia Xu listened to it and took a look, and then smiled: "The lord has good eyesight, and he has only met once and remembered these people, please rest assured, I will definitely ask a few people to come." ”

Zhang Xiu nodded and said: "Bring Hu Che'er with daggers, if they don't come, tie them up, as long as they come to Wancheng, embroidery has its own way to leave them." ”

Jia Xu laughed dryly twice and said, "Congratulations to the lord for having a great deal again." ”

Zhang Xiudian nodded and said, "Wenhe, go back and rest." Let's go to Chang'an early tomorrow morning

Jia Xu saluted and withdrew.

Zhang Xiu didn't talk about how to prepare for the imperial examination for the time being, but Jia Xu and Hu Che'er rode to Chang'an early the next morning, and entered Chang'an City in less than five days.

Jia Xu went to the Jingzhao Yin Mansion, paid a prayer on the ground, and was soon received by Li Ru. When Li Ru saw Jia Xu's arrival, he immediately put down his official duties and bowed his hand to Jia Xu: "I haven't seen you for a long time, and the name of Wenhe has spread all over the Han Dynasty. But it was Zhang Xiu who fought with Liu Biao and Yuan Shu, and Jia Xu, who was a military advisor, became famous, especially the hand he arranged for Zhou Cang to assassinate Yuan Shu, which cut off Liu Biao's back road, and had to let Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu join forces, which has reached the ears of all the princes.

Jia Xu returned the salute and sat down under Li Ru's signal, only to hear Jia Xu say: "Wen Wei praised it, it is also the lord's decision to make a decision, and Xu is just a military counselor." ”

Li Ru said: "Wen He is here, I'm afraid it's not as simple as visiting an old friend. ”

Jia Xu nodded, took out Zhang Xiu's letter from his arms, put it on Li Ru's long case, and said, "My lord wants these people, and he also wants to take over the family as small as Wancheng." ”

Li Ru didn't look at it immediately: "Zhang Boyuan's ambition is not small, I should have suggested that the lord kill him that day." ”

Jia Xu smiled, didn't care, but said calmly: "It's not small, it's about the same as your lord's thoughts, and after speaking, he pointed to the direction of the Chang'an Palace." ”

Li Ru snorted and said, "Wen He is not afraid that Confucianism will take you down and kill you now?" ”

Jia Xu looked at Li Ru with both eyes, and said word by word: "You won't Li Ru snorted again, but as Jia Xu said, he didn't act." Jia Xu continued: "When you and I intersected that day, Wen Wei never came out again. And when Wen Wei wanted to go out to Dong Zhuo, Xu also strongly persuaded him, but Wen Wei didn't listen to Xu's words, not only did he go out to Dong Zhuo, but he pulled Xu into Dong Zhuo's army. Now that I ask the words of the year again, what does Wen Wei think of Dong Zhuo? ”

Li Ru was stunned for a moment when he heard this question, and only after a long time did he let out a long sigh and muttered, "Could it be that Fei Ru made the wrong choice back then. ”

Jia Xu said: "Dong Zhuo is like a person who leads the dead, is Wen Wei ready to be martyred for him?" After Li Ru heard this, he shook his head and sighed: "After all, he is the father-in-law of Confucianism," before he finished speaking, Jia Xu said coldly: "The Wen Wei back then would not care about the small family, you are the same person as Xu." ”

After Li Ru heard this, he sighed: "Yes, Li Ru was not like this back then, but now it has changed." You Jia Xu is quietly the same Jia Xu back then, calm and decisive, and unscrupulous for the sake of the end. But I Li Ru already has concerns, and I can't think about it with the mentality of staying out of the matter, it seems that glory and wealth will really make people sink. After finishing speaking, Li Ru sighed again and again.

Seeing this, Jia Xu sighed: "Wen Wei, now that the way back is in front of you, whether you are ready to keep your family or prepare to accompany Dong Zhuo to the funeral depends on your choice at this time." ”

After Li Ru heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Wen He is talking about Zhang Xiu?" Seeing Jia Xu nodding, Li Ru asked again: "Zhang Xiu really has the ability to win the world?" ”

Jia Xu replied calmly: "There were only three people who took the power of the world back then. ”

Li Ruran said: "Who is it?" ”

Jia Xu replied: "Zhang Xiu, Cao Cao, Sun Jian." ”

After Li Ru listened, he nodded and said, "There is one more missing, Liu Bei." ”

Jia Xu listened, thought about it carefully, and said: "That's right, I didn't expect Wen Wei to have such a deep memory of the person who only had a relationship with Guangzong that day. However, among these four people, only Zhang Xiu and Cao Cao can accommodate you and me. But I am afraid that the only one who can completely swing you and I will be able to wield it is Zhang Xiu. ”

After Li Ru heard this, he asked, "Wenhe is so confident in Zhang Xiu?" ”

Jia Xu praised: "Although Wu is not as good as the overlord of Chu back then, it is not much different, Wen Ke Anbang, and good at accepting advice, and can tolerate it." One of them can be a prince, Zhang embroidered the fourth, and it can't take the world and ask who can take it

Li Ru did not answer immediately, but opened the letter written by Zhang Xiu on the long case and looked at it carefully, and sighed after reading it: "Wen He also missed a point, Zhang Xiu's ability to recognize people. ”

Jia Xu smiled slightly and said, "What does Wen Wei think?"

Li Ru nodded and sighed: "I really have to prepare to retreat." After finishing speaking, Li Ru wrote a few orders to Jia Xu, and said: "If he feels that there is a change in Chang'an, he will let his wife and children go to Wancheng, and Wan Wangwen and Dai Ru will take care of one or two."

After receiving the order, Jia Xu stood up and said, "Please rest assured." Then he turned and strode away.

When Jia Xu returned to Zhang's mansion, Zhang Ji was waiting in the main hall, and when he saw Jia Xu coming, he immediately asked, "Sir, has the matter been done?"

Jia Xu nodded and said, "It's been done, but Cai Zhonglang's house has a lot of books, and now the lord's army is all in Wancheng, and it is very difficult to transport, I don't know if General Zhang can arrange it properly?" ”

Zhang Ji nodded and said: "Ji has already discussed with Cai Zhonglang, and asked Hu Che'er to recruit the people, and the cart that transported the books from Luoyang that day was not discarded, as long as the people were the feet." ”

Jia Xu frowned and said, "I'm afraid it's not appropriate to recruit people's husbands.

Zhang Ji said with a smile: "It's okay, Boyuan's master, Master Tong, and his friend Master Wang are ready to go to Wancheng with Ji." Master Wang has accepted a lot of disciples to be guards, and Bo Yuan's junior brother Zhao Yun has the courage of ten thousand people, and Hu Che'er walks with him, and the younger generation does not dare to make trouble

After Jia Xu heard this, he nodded: "That's good, the lord seems to have added another general." ”

Zhang Ji also smiled when he heard this: "Whether Zilong can be willing to surrender depends on Bo Yuan himself, Zhang Ji and Jia Xu have been polite for a few more times, and then arrange a guest room for Jia Xu to stay."

Early the next morning, Jia Xu left Zhang's mansion in a hurry, but he went to ask for someone with an order. Although there is an order, but Jia Xu is afraid that those big ones will not come, so they all come to visit one by one, if there is no persuasion, naturally let Hu Che'er go to tie up these people at night, fortunately these people have a good impression of Zhang Xiu, and they nodded and agreed to go to Wancheng, and agreed with Jia Xu to wait at the east gate of Chang'an five days later.

Five days later, Jia Xu, Hu Che'er, Zhang's family, and Cai Yi came to the east gate of Chang'an first, followed by hundreds of carts transporting books, and Hu Zhuoer commanded the transportation in the convoy. Fortunately, it was early in the morning, and there were not many people in Chang'an City, so after Jia Xu showed the order, the keeper of Chang'an East City Gate let them out of the city.

After waiting for a while, Tong Yuan, Wang Yue and others led a group of strong men to come, these were Wang Yue's apprentices, and Zhao Yun and Zhao Yu's brothers and sisters were naturally among them. After Tong Yuan and the others arrived, Jia Xu arranged for these strong men to be guarded and under the command of Zhao Yun, and the two masters naturally walked with Zhang Ji, after all, only Zhang Ji had some friendship with them here.

After waiting for a while, several cars also joined the convoy, and it was Zhang Xiu who asked those people and their families to be small. Zhang Ji saw a few people and said in surprise: "What Bo Yuan wants is Zhong Yuan, Chang Zhonghe, Du Bohou, Du Ji and Zhang Derong and Zhang Ji?" ”